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GATE.

Patented Mar. 18, 1884.

WITNESSES:

/ ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH P. B. RAREY, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DANIELRAREY, OF SAME PLACE.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,428, dated March18, 1884.

Application filed August 11, 1883. (No model.)

T aZZ w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH P. B. RAREY, a citizen of theUnited States,and a resident of Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and X-.

V sponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to that class of gates which are operated bythe wheel of a vehicle striking a swinging bail journaled in theroadway; and it consists in the improved construction and combination ofparts of a sliding gate operated in this manner, as hereinafter morefully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A A indicate two posts at oneside of the gateway, between which the gate slides.

B B are two posts, to which the inner ends of the planks inclosing thegate, when drawn in, and the bar upon which the inner end of the gateslides, are fastened; and O is the abuttingpost upon the other side ofthe gateway.

Disarectangularfraine placed in the roadbed at a level with or slightlybelow the same, upon which are fastened the bearings E, in which turnthe straight portions of the bails F, which are operated by the wheels,and of the bails G, which are operated by the wheel-operated bails, andwhich operate the gate.

The wheel-operated bails consist of a smaller bail, H, against which thewheel of the vehicle strikes, and a larger bail, I, which straddles thegate-operating bail, and is placed at right angles to the same. The endof the rock-shaft or rocking straight portion of the bail forms a crank,J, upon which is hinged a swinging weight, K, which serves to keep thebails in an upright position and there is one bail at each side of thegate, one serving to open the same, and, the other to close it again.

The gate-operating bail consists of a straight rock-shaft, L,which formsa double crank, M. at its middle near the gate, and two bails, N and 0,upon each side of the gate, which are curved slightly in oppositedirections, the bails of each pair standing in planes nearly at rightangles to each other, and at angles of nearly forty-five degrees to theplane of the central crank. The two bails of each pair are at such adistance apart that when the wheel-operated bails are tilted the innerbail will bear down upon one of them, tilting the same down.

The gate consists of the outer portion, P, which bars the gateway, andwhich may be of any desired construction, rails, paling, or wire beingused in its construction. The outervertical post,which bears against theabutment-post,

is provided with an upwardly-pointing catch,

rail of the outer portion of the gate, and projects in between the postsA A andB B, forming with an upright post, T, and a brace, U, the innerportion of the gate. A rail,V, is fastened between theupper ends of thetwo pairs of posts, between which the gate slides, and a roller, W, isjournaled in a bail, X, upon the top of the central upright post, T, andtravels upon the upper surface of the said rail, while a similarroller,Y, is journaled between the lower ends of an upright bail, Z,which straddles the rail, and is fastened to the inner end of the gate,the roller traveling against the under side of the rail. Aconnecting-arm, a, is hinged at one end to the upper rail of the innerportion of the gate, near-to, but a short distance to the rear of, thecentral post, and is hinged at its other end to the long end of alever,b,whichis pivoted upon a horizontal rail, 0, fastened atits end to thelower portions of two of the two pairs of posts between which the gateslides, and to the lower shorter end of V which is hinged aconnecting-rod, (Z, the other end of which is hinged to the centraldouble crank upon the gatebperating bails.

It will now be seen that when avehic le passes toward the gate, one ofthe wheels will strike IOO the wheel-operated bail, tilting it, whichwill cause the bail upon its inner end to be tilted inward, pressingdown the inner bail upon the gateoperating bail-shaft,which again willtilt the said shaft and bail, and the double crank with it, forwardtoward the gateway, drawing the lower end of the lever in thatdirection, which causes a draw, in an, upward and rear warddirectiomupon the connecting-rod hinged to its upper end,which draw iscommunicated to the gate through the said rod, raising its inner end,and thereby releasing the catch and drawing it in. When, now, thevehicle has passed through the gate, its wheels will strike the bailupon the other side of the gate, tilting it, which will cause thegate-operating rockshaft to return to its old position, closing thegate.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- 1. The combination of tworock-shafts parallel with the gate, each having a bail adapted to betilted by a vehicle-wheel, a bail near its inner end in the same planeas the former,and a weight upon its end keeping it npright,with arock-shait parallel with the roadway, having two curved bails at eachend at right angles to each other, and connecting means for operating agate, one wheel-operated shaft being at each end of thegate-operatingshaft, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. The combination of an abutment post having a slotted catch-plate, agate sliding between two sets of posts, having an upwardlyhooked catchat its abutting end, and a roller at its center rolling upon the upperside, and a roller at its end traveling upon the lower side ofahorizontal rail, a connecting-rod hinged to the gate to the rear of itscenter, a lever having the said connecting-rod hinged to its upperlonger end, a connecting-rod hinged to the lower short end of the lever,a rock-shaft having a pair of divergently-curved bails at each end, thebails in each pair being at right angles to each other, and a doublecrank, to which the connecting-rod is hinged, and a pair of rock-shaftshaving bails adapted to be operated by a vehicle-wheel, bails straddlingthe rock-shaft between each pair of curved bails, and weights at theirends keeping the bails upright, as and for the purpose shown and setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH P. B. RAREY.

WVitnesses:

J AMES J. YOUNG, J. I. MARTINDALE.

